This April, the newest Stocking Spree coupon booklet arrives with over $57 in Publix® deals on all your favorite brands! If you have already signed up once, the spring Publix® coupon booklet will be automatically sent to your doorstep between 4/2–4/9/2012. The book is packed with coupons for Chips Ahoy!®, Gatorade®, Tide® and more!

Publix is really pushing the Italian Days promo in Tampa! Today (Friday) this coupon is available again for all those people that might have missed it in your TampaTrib or TampaBayTImes this week. Look in the free newspaper TBT for the exact same flyer! This paper can be found in racks at most gas stations, convenience stores, and free standing boxes around Tampa.

Check your morning Tampa Bay Times newspaper for the Publix Italian Day promotional flyer, there's a $5 off $30 Publix coupon in the separate flyer. It was in yesterday's Tampa Tribune in case you missed it. It expires 2/29/12.

We really are very well stocked up and could probably skip shopping for a long time, except for salad stuff. We do like the Al Fresco chicken sausage and its on an unadvertised BOGO this week and you can sign up for a $1/1 coupon at http://news.alfrescoallnatural.com/ and they will email you a link. If you have multiple computers you can print 2 more from the same link at different computers. I used up my last $2/1 Sundown MQ but at least there are more in this weekends RP.

So this trip I spent $1.15 plus tax and got almost $75 worth of groceries. I decided to skip the gas card deal since we got a lot last time, enough for a half a years worth of gas for our vehicles. But if you haven't gotten gas cards, this is the week to do it.

19-Jan

30

74.43

17.78

55.50

1.15

29

-98.45%

Product

qty

price

subtl

B1G1

-Q

total

Q#

Q details

deli item

2

2.43

4.86

4.00

0.86

2

$2 1-8 PQ

onions

1

0.60

0.75

0.75

cucumber

1

0.75

0.75

0.75

lettuce

1

1.69

1.69

1.69

apples 3lb bag

1

2.99

2.99

2.99

cantaloupe

1

2.00

2.00

2.00

romaine

1

1.89

1.89

1.89

mushrooms

1

1.79

1.99

1.99

Al Fresco chx sau BOGO

4

5.39

21.56

10.78

4.00

6.78

4

$1/1 print

Oral B cavity def toothbr

4

1.39

5.56

5.50

0.06

6

$0.75/2 MQ 1-1PG + $1/1 PQ

Party Mix Cat trt BOGO

8

1.75

14.00

7.00

8.00

-1.00

8

$1/1 PQ pet paws email

GasX

4

2.49

9.96

16.00

-6.04

4

$5/2 PQ + $3/1 MQ 1-8ss

Sndwn vit B6

2

3.59

7.18

8.00

-0.82

3

$5/2 PQ + $2/1 MQ

$/$$ coupon

0.00

0.00

5.00

-5.00

1

$5/$30 PQ Take Budgt by hrn

$/$$ coupon

0.00

0.00

5.00

-5.00

1

$5/$25 SAL

I also picked up the new booklet Find Yourself in Good Health with the listed PQ's.

Pull that Tampa Trib or Tampa Bay Times out of the recycle bin! There is a $2 off any bakery item $2 or more Publix coupon in the front section. The Tampa Trib has the full color ad with the coupon on the back of the the Trib2 section, just under the weather. The Tampa Bay Times has it buried in the front section on page 6A. Its valid until 1/14/2012.

There are a lot of great deals at Publix this week that utilize Target coupons (TQ). If your favorite Publix accepts Target as a competitor and doesn't enforce the "one coupon per transaction" wording on the TQ then you can get some Marie Callenders bakes entrees and its a $2.51 Moneymaker!

There is also the deal on using the $10 off a Turkey wyb 12 Kraft Items MQ printable where you can get some Philadelphia Cream cheese, or Nabisco Crackers, or Maxwell House coffee, or Oscar Mayer Bacon - along with a $5 off $30 coupon to end up with a final cost of about $4 (for a turkey and 12 items).

But to work these deals you need to have printed the Target coupons a while ago since some are no longer available at online atTarget.

My tip is to not ever print Target coupons until you know you need them. To do this just go to the Fatwallet Target Coupon Thread. There are several users who will print them and upload the pdf to Mediafire for everyone to access. Just search the thread for your keyword (i.e., philadelphia) and all the posts with that word will be filtered out for your review. Select the link that has your coupon. Many coupons are reissued throughout the year so make sure it has the right expiration date which is noted in the name in the link. It will bring you to Mediafire which is an offsite download website. It is safe, I use it all the time. You do not need to sign up or join to use it. Click the big download button and when the popup shows, click SAVE and put it in your coupon folder on your computer. Then you can print it as many times as you want. There are 2 coupons per page.

Tampa Folks - look at the bottom of section your Sunday Tampa Tribune paper today, section Trib2 Extra to see a big coupon from Sweetbay $10 off $50! It also can be found on page 14A of the St Pete Times Sunday paper. This can be used at most Publix stores as a competitor coupon and will stack with a Publix $/$$ coupon. The Sweetbay coupon expires Saturday 11/19/11.

My husband and I lead very active lives doing lots of outdoor activities like walking, lawn chores, bicycling, boating and motorcycling. Since we both wear glasses, we need to have more than one pair to accommodate our lifestyle.

I prefer to wear my eyeglasses with a magnetic sun shade so I can basically have sunglasses on while driving or riding in the car, and then regular non tinted eyeglass when I'm shopping indoors. DH prefers to carry around his spare pair of glasses for indoors, and he has a special prescription pair of wrap around sun glasses. While they are cool, they are not cheap.

My eyeglasses on the other hand, are very affordable. In fact, they are so affordable I have several pairs!

The frugal person gets their eye glasses online through a vendor such as GlassesUSA.com. It's really easy to order if you already have your prescription. They offer a 110% lowest price guarantee and a 100% satisfaction guarantee There is a Fall Sale going on where you can save more now!

Buy one pair of glasses and get any other pair for FREE! Use code: BOGOUSA

Take 10% off any order of $80 or more and get free shipping in US! Use code: FS10

Get FREE SHIPPING on any US order. No minimum required! Use code: freeship10

Take 10% off any order. Use code: Blog10

While you're visiting GlassesUSA.com go ahead and "Like" them on Facebook to stay aware of all their deals! @GlassesUSA is also on twitter.

It's back! Go HERE to sign up for your free coupon booklet from Publix for their next Shopping Spree promotion with Kraft, P&G and Pepsi products. The valid dates of the promotion are 10/06/11 thru 11/3/11. Hopefully, they will have made some changes to the coupons because last time they were store coupons with a LU#, but it said Manufacturer coupon on the header - talk about confusing! There also was some strict language about not combining with other coupons, and limit one per transaction.

Expect to receive the coupons between 10/5 and 10/15/11. Limit one booklet per household.

Go on over to IHP to request your very own "Bring The Tailgate Home" booklets. They will be in stores eventually, but its nice to get your own mailed to your house. She has 20,000 booklets to give out so HURRY.

The other day at the grocery store it was jammin'. College classes start at the nearby University, and our store is one that the majority of students shop at since its just kiddy corner from campus. It's actually amusing to watch students shop, as they wander up and down the aisles picking up lots of convenience foods and snacks, munchies and soda. The girls all shop together, perhaps they're room mates and they share their food unequivocally. The carts are heaped full and I'm sure the store loves it. As it was, we were not getting much, just some cereal to use up a rain check and we happened to pick up a couple items that were splurges for us (Sabra Hummus and fresh buns). We got hooked on the hummus when it was BOGO with a coupon and it was cheap. Now it was not, but I did have a $1/1 coupon to help defray the four dollar cost.

Anyway, we were ready to check out and scanned the cashiers looking for one of our favorite, competent ones who can handle all the coupon scenarios. It was so crowded there we didn't want to hold up a line any longer than necessary by going to a cashier who looked at every coupon for 5 seconds too long. Anyway, we found our favorite and went to her line even though there was a young student there with a heaped cart. While we waited we looked over her purchases and it appeared that she was buying everything to make a spaghetti meal. I mean everything, including the cookie sheets to make the bread, pans to cook the noodles and heat up the sauce, plus all the seasonings, cheeses, sauces and noodles. She must have just moved into her dorm (her college tshirt said Resident Assistant) and was setting up her kitchen. There was even a container of the hummus like the one I had in my cart too. I was thinking her cart was going to cost a fortune, and she had only one coupon in her hand. I quickly found an extra hummus coupon, and also a $5/30 store coupon and passed them to DH to give to the girl. She was so appreciative and thankful. The one coupon she had for Parmesan cheese she said she had found on the floor. DH was smitten as the cute young thing batted her eyelashes at him. Her order ended up costing $96, and she saved $6 (from our coupons).

I like doing that, being the coupon fairy. Its karma with coupons, it all comes back.

There's a deal to be had on Revlon cosmetics and tools if you have the coupons. This deal would work at Publix and at Target, possibly other stores if they take Target as a competitor. There is a $5/2 Revlon beauty tools Target coupon in the 8/21 SS in Tampa. So here's the deal.

Revlon point sharpener tool is $2.99 at Publix according to Tampa Curbside price checker. The cheapest cosmetic item is nail polish at $4.79.

Coupons.com has just released a bunch of new coupons, print yours now since some will go really fast.

Food & Beverage: Buy One Get One Free 20 oz of Sun Drop (Reg. or Diet)

$5.00 OFF any Large Powder 22 oz. or above purchase of Gentlease, A.R. or ProSobee
$1.75 OFF any one box of Mighty Leaf Iced Tea
$1.00 OFF any one (1) Minute MaidÂ® Juice Box 10-pk, any variety (stack with PQ in Sweet Summer Savings Booklet for Free JUICE!)
$1.00 OFF any 12oz. bag of Seattle's Best Coffee (goes with next week's Publix Sale)
$3.00 OFF any one (1) NIVEA Good-bye Cellulite Product (2.5oz.-6.7oz.)

$3.00 OFF ANY Non-Drowsy Claritin-D Allergy Product (15 count or larger)
$2.00 OFF ANY Aleve 80ct or larger
$2.00 OFF ANY Florastor probiotic
$1.50 OFF ANY BOTTLE OF EMETROL FOR NAUSEA
$1.00 OFF ANY Disney Childrens' Vitamin Product
$1.00 OFF ANY Sundown Naturals Vitamin Product
$1.00 OFF ANY Urinozinc Prostate Formula
$1.00 OFF ANY Dr. Scholl's Freeze Away

Summer is here and the Water Quality and Health Council, in partnership with the American Chemistry Council, is once again offering free pool test kits to the public through its Healthy Pools Campaign.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends swimmers check the pH and chlorine levels of swimming pools before getting into the water. Adequate pool chemistry helps reduce the risk of recreational water illnesses like "swimmer's ear," which CDC says is responsible for over two million trips to the doctor each year and $500 million in healthcare costs.

Order your free pool test kit today at www.healthypools.org/freeteststrips. You are invited to return to that website to upload your pool readings to a national data collection map. There is even a smart phone-friendly view to make data uploading convenient poolside.

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Frugal living isn’t about self-denial, at least not absolutely.
It’s about logically and purposely putting our resources toward specific
accomplishments. Occasionally, interspersing my frugal life with luxuries is
tremendously rewarding, as long as those luxuries don’t derail me from the
track. In fact, I recommend it.

On some
level, we should all try to be more conscious of where our money goes, and
better understand the connection between our time and work, and between time
and money. This will help us reach our life goals through a combination of watchful
spending and disciplined saving.